Expat Shield Problem?

[sumrit]

Yesterday I turned on Expat Shield to enable me to watch something on iplayer. Almost immediately I received a ''suspicious sign in prevented'' email from google saying they had blocked a sign in attempt on one of my Gmail accounts. They said:

Someone recently tried to use an application to sign in to your Google Account, *****************@gmail.com. We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:

Monday, August 6, 2012 10:55:56 PM GMT

IP Address: 74.115.7.12 (anchorfree.com)

Location: Unknown Location

Anchor free is, of course, Expat Shield. I use incredimail to access all my email accounts easily at one single point so don't go into each email account separately. Didn't get an email about my other Gmail account so I presume they didn't try to access that. Don't know about my hotmail and yahoo accounts so I'll just have to wait and see if I, and all my contacts, get loads of s**t emails in the near future.I also have AVG installed which normally scans all emails.

At the same time, as I started Expat Shield, the 32 bit version of IE tried to open up. Now the 32 bit version has never worked since I bought the laptop and when trying to open it I just get a small pop up saying 'internet explorer has stopped working'. It was this pop up that I got. My settings for internet access via links are set to open up in Chrome, not IE.

The 64 bit version of IE, which I only use to access bit torrent sites, didn't open, but I use Chrome for normal surfing and used that to start Expat Shield. I don't store any usernames/passwords but obviously use Chrome to access my bank accounts, etc.

Could those usernames/passwords be accessed from the web page history stored within Chrome or am I just being paranoid?

Obviously I won't be using Expat Shield again but has anybody else experienced similar problems?

[endure]

I have. If you try and log in to a Gmail account while Expatshield is running Gmail will think you're trying something dodgy. Don't try and read your email while expatshield is proxying. If you want to log in to Gmail make sure that Expatshield isn't running.

[Dork]

Don't worry, as Endure said there's nothing dodgy going on. Because you were probably logged into Gmail before Expatshield started, Gmail has you registered from a Thai IP address then when Expatshield started Gmail saw you almost simultaneously attempting to log in from a different (USA?) IP address.